Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-03-19 | Page 29 | Scientist Says Young Jake Did Not Inherit His Father's Ability

MM SCIENTIST SAYS YOUNG H JAKE DID NOT INHERIT V KIS FATHER'S ABILITY j Followers of Game Agree, However, That New ( Champion Is Marvel; He Presents No j Type of Billiard Face Does Young- Jak' Sehaefer inherit Kl tho accumulated billiard skill of hit K I E-J Coulil tli I.-UI....1- ..l J . x I. h i ftf-m transmitted lo hl nun tin. ." i n. 1 It i v wLLMSM which babe made the younger Schue-for Schue-for champlun IS. 2 balkllne billiard kkkvM player of I ho w orld .' Bfl Laymen represented by hundreds IkS of billiard Cam who havi iccn both bMBB; M f a I ( i L'afcl on tro Kn " n i.'l.iih say ' i " io both Kf ' questions, KA2 n SCIENCE 8AY8 NO. BU 5 in the kH mm. Mm i gasjr baM - mWmWmM ld Jake Sehaefer waa s world EH champion billiard player until 190S. B-L i Sin... ih. n jM. gagfl h- boh young SB ) (VHlh i th aHHtaOl SB ,HH w s..n iii'iim playing billiard H i he could IIIIJl ally the lad in the art of "nursing." K VI "draw i in I ..Mi. i fin-- points of BBm the mmmmmMmmmMf i What docs study or the tact oi Hi - "Younc Jak" mean to you? I HAS FA1 III K s i l M l RES If Maybe it Is imagination or perhaps HHKHrf It is something clue, but old billiard rr3T HJ j. i i prof ci revea I ed HVjlBH' features of "Young Jake" tin- charac-I 'bHb terlstlcs which predominated his fath- HVjHB cr. Professor Starr cannot them. mW -Vi"' 01,1 ,'iii;,ra fan ('"' 1 Bp fjflj V'.unc Jake.' aa he moves iik.ii' the tabb akillfully sizing up dlrfu't nd 1 3nfEH complicated situations and with un- WLw BH failing accuracy deciding which play HJ CTH must be made, the Imago of hla lllua- 32 JHJ n en. ould ro renemblc bis rath- R-VJH c i In actions and display the same i JjJW; r tkill iinbs- he had Inherited the gen- ;'J lui ol hla pan int," the old tinier will HHVHj But Prof. Starr asserts that every HlHkBJ wne who la an authority on evolution BmH) n.-r. with him Ins "BB-jj. Hint in. "ii . ..ul. I min iit ii" umu- EJ -I. ol billiard skill from th.- fathi Sfjfl I "It fa quite po however," Prof M Starr said, "for the father to tr , mlt lo the son those qualities which , 'would make a good billiard player, land ihesr inherited qualities could be developed BO that th- sen also would I be a skilled billiard player. Evidently Evident-ly that is what happened In this cane. INHERITS Ql VI ITIEfa SCflC MUM. I "A keen eye, a steady hand, ii mind quick to take In a Situation: courage, perhaps; these are some of the things .. hii h could be transmitted to the son. That, of course. Is quite different from I Baying that billiard experience and I kill aa such, could be inherited from the father. The son nilrht or might, hot be a billiard player, according as hie qualities were developed, "The fact that the younger Jake grew up in an environment where he would see a great interest taken In billiards would lend to Influence hlrn to take up the game and encourago him to develop his skill. It is Interesting Inter-esting that the father died liefore the Don became actively interested; that! fact may have deprived the ?on of I some of the Influences that would en- f.ii i rn rr. h I rr In nlav ' Mi TYPE Ol 'BILLIARD PACE." I There is no "billiard" face or expression, ex-pression, no more than there is any expie-sion peculiar to a certain occupation, oc-cupation, according to Prof. Starr. Shown a pi. tui e f Jake Schaefei. Sr . Prof. Starr .--: i I "It would hV- Impossible Impos-sible to tell from this picture that the man Is a billiard player The picture pic-ture shows a man awake., keen, Intelligent. In-telligent. "If I were gpen a group of pictures and told that certain pictures In that group were those of two or three billiard players, I could with my attention at-tention thus directed, pick out five pictures which would contain the pictures pic-tures of the billiard players. But nlthout such a hint It would be Impossible Im-possible to tell an occupation. 'The son evidently is a man who has himself In control; he looks intelligent. in-telligent. i;ut. as In the case of the Bather there is nothing that would Indicate that ho waa a billiard player. Thero are no distinguishing marks From the pic ture one can see that ho might I" a billiard player, or any- i thlnn else that requires control and lute lllgeni e "